Matt’s programming blog

In the budgeting app YNAB, there’s a process called reconciliation, whereby you reconcile transactions between the YNAB app and your various accounts.

After a bit of searching I didn’t find any obvious solution to the problem of: I want a process running in a tmux pane to send a desktop notification, and when I click that notification I’m taken directly to the source pane.

Just logging for posterity that AI models and specifically coding agent harnesses have gotten really good at discovering and using tools lately.

Git bisect is a git command to find when some property in your codebase changed, e.g. when a bug was introduced or when a variable was first used.

After sparse but longtime frustration with macOS’s built-in dictation (doesn’t input in every context, transcription is mid), I finally installed MacWhisper.

Lately I’ve been doing more AI agent assisted coding and vibecoding using Cursor and Claude Code.

The first time I programmed a computer I was in high school.

My home city of Philadelphia, PA makes various datasets related to city housing, crime, traffic, and bureaucracy publicly available.

Despite AI advancements I don’t think plant identification is solved.

Flipping a coin is a universal way to quickly solve small disagreements between two parties.